United Nations Drug Policy: Skeptics Chime In (BB Video)

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On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 the United Nations' Commission of Narcotic Drugs held its 52nd session in Vienna, Austria, just10 years after Kofi Annan's pledge to have a "drug free world" by 2008. Representatives from around the world attended the conference voicing support and opposition to the centuries old "war on drugs."

Working with Witness and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, we cut together excerpts from "Dare to Question? Using Video to Take on UN Drug Policies" and other testimonials appealing to the United Nations to reconsider its hardline policies combating the cultivation and use of illicit drugs.

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Something to chew on: The chemical neurotransmitters that aid you in processing this reality are so structurally similar to some of these so-called "illicit" substances that the whole thing begs this question:

Are We Not On Drugs All The Time Anyway?

(Check out dimethyltryptamine, LSD-25 and psilocybin and their structural similarity to serotonin, for example.)

[Paradisexcali]

I strongly believe the legalization of marijuana along with the arms smuggling to Mexico's war on drug is in the breach of peace regarding to UN Charters 39,41, and 42 but, also contradict US service codes.

[PlayTilTheyBleed]

Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing.

[gotilk]

Problem solving without debate. Sounds like a plan. wow... just wow.

I hear people say that drugs steal your life. I think often the process of avoiding prosecution and persecution causes more damage than any drug ever could.

But go ahead and have an anti-psychotic with your mood-balancer and let's talk about how good the fairy tale of a drug free world makes you FEEL.